I am using discourse to document the parts and pieces of a particular recent bill and would like to use the existing category & contents for said bill to provide the initial populating of a category focused on the repeal of that bill. So category A with contents → category B Any thoughts on a good …

Do you want to create just subcategories or also the topics? You can export a category… Maybe it’s here: Administrative Bulk Operations

Thanks for that! It is useful but to answer your question, no subcategories, just one categories’ contents into another, once and done. I am trying to avoid duplicating manually but as I work on the manual approach I am reminded the topic title can’t be reused so I need to append/modify the title an…

[image] philh: I am reminded the topic title can’t be reused You can change that in the site settings: Allow duplicate topic titles

yes i have to use this for those emails that repeat subject

I could not see a workable path using some mix of the rails queries suggested by @pfaffman but his subcategories prompt was very useful. I was reticent to Allow duplicate topic titles as @Moin suggested but turns out the result was not confusing, at least to me, as I feared it would be. So… catego…

duplicate topic titles are fine, i have hundreds of them. The purpose of me allowing duplicate titles is helpful when searching the database, perhaps it’s not for you? I’m more wary of duplicate category names/slugs

[image] Ethsim2: I’m more wary of duplicate category names/slugs Not doing that for certain :slight_smile:

i’m guilty of duplicate subcategory names in different names of parent category :sweat_smile:

That would make my little brain explode. I did not know cat and sub cats can have duplicate titles, maybe duplicates with different slugs I suppose.

I might be wrong because i haven’t tried two parent categories with same name, from a quick look at my hundreds of categories. I think the slug is designed to be legible to a human or search engine indexer, if relevant :wink:

Structure et duplication des contenus de catégorie au sein du discours et entre les sites de discours

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Moin Juillet 27, 2025, 7:42 4

Vous pouvez modifier cela dans les paramètres du site : Autoriser les doublons de titres de sujet

Sujet		Réponses	Vues
Could we check the duplicated topic title for the each category only? Support	6	1172	Juin 15, 2020
How can I duplicate a whole topic? Support	20	2011	Septembre 22, 2025
Is it possible to set a topic under many categories? Feature	6	1244	Août 17, 2025
Mirrored topic: same topic in two categories Feature	8	1206	Août 17, 2025
Imported categories are not in parent category Support categories , spaces	4	98	Décembre 5, 2025

Structure et duplication des contenus de catégorie au sein du discours et entre les sites de discours

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